Every dedicated Jeopardy! watcher knows that moment.
You just rattled off a few correct responses in a row. Perhaps you even ran a whole category! The thought occurs to you: I could be a champion. The Jeopardy! Anytime test is right there. Then all you’d need to do is ace the interview portion, fly to Burbank, and enter into the Jeopardy! canon. You’re the next Matt Amodio. You’re the next Amy Schneider. You’ve got this.
Well friend, sad to say you probably don’t got this. Jeopardy! is hard … very hard. And sometimes Jeopardy! likes to remind we casuals of just how competitive a contest it really is. The latest reminder has arrived in the form of this year’s Tournament of Champions. This is the largest ToC in the show’s history, featuring a record 27 contestants vying for a $250,000 prize and spot in the upcoming Jeopardy!
You just rattled off a few correct responses in a row. Perhaps you even ran a whole category! The thought occurs to you: I could be a champion. The Jeopardy! Anytime test is right there. Then all you’d need to do is ace the interview portion, fly to Burbank, and enter into the Jeopardy! canon. You’re the next Matt Amodio. You’re the next Amy Schneider. You’ve got this.
Well friend, sad to say you probably don’t got this. Jeopardy! is hard … very hard. And sometimes Jeopardy! likes to remind we casuals of just how competitive a contest it really is. The latest reminder has arrived in the form of this year’s Tournament of Champions. This is the largest ToC in the show’s history, featuring a record 27 contestants vying for a $250,000 prize and spot in the upcoming Jeopardy!
- 3/4/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
West of Zanzibar (1928) shows in Unspeakable: The Films of Tod Browning, running March 17 - 26, 2023, at Film at Lincoln Center in New York.Untitled (Fay Wray with Masks) (ca. 1928).He referred to them not as photographs but as pictures, akin to John Ford’s self-description as a “picture-maker.” This was not by accident or due to eccentricity, for there was a war happening among photographers. One party, represented best by Ansel Adams’s Group f/64, advocated a “pure” photography in which sharp focus and an eye for “realism” aided the photographer’s holy scientific task of capturing the immense object of reality. The other less-centralized party, sometimes called Pictorialists, chose to depict reality by representation and exaggeration. For William Mortensen, who lauded and exemplified the Pictorialist vision when it was most unfashionable, the camera was simply another artistic tool to be revered and used alongside graphite or clay. What mattered was...
- 3/17/2023
- MUBI
Based on the 2005 John Green novel of the same name, “Looking For Alaska” was made to be adapted for television by Josh Schwartz. In fact, in 2005, it was set to be adapted by him as a feature film; but even after writing a screenplay that Green reportedly loved, the movie remained in development hell, with constant delays for years. Then in May 2018, it was announced that Schwartz would be writing the eight-episode limited series for Hulu, executive producing alongside his Fake Empire partner and longtime collaborator Stephanie Savage.
Now it’s finally here, and despite the story originally being written by someone else entirely, “Looking For Alaska” fits Schwarz and Savage like a glove. This is far from the duo’s first adaptation—“Gossip Girl,” “The Carrie Diaries,” and Marvel’s “Runaways” all exist—but it is impressive just how much the source material and the finished product makes it feel like their own creation.
Now it’s finally here, and despite the story originally being written by someone else entirely, “Looking For Alaska” fits Schwarz and Savage like a glove. This is far from the duo’s first adaptation—“Gossip Girl,” “The Carrie Diaries,” and Marvel’s “Runaways” all exist—but it is impressive just how much the source material and the finished product makes it feel like their own creation.
- 10/18/2019
- by LaToya Ferguson
- Indiewire
“Looking for Alaska” fans looking for a faithful adaptation of the John Green novel will find what they seek when Hulu’s limited series based on the book drops Friday, with creator Josh Schwartz telling TheWrap that his version has a “tremendous fidelity to the text.”
And that means an overarching theme of last words, including main character Miles “Pudge” Halter’s (played by Charlie Plummer) favorite, those of poet Francois Rabelais: “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
“The Great Perhaps, finding the Great Perhaps. Miles is obsessed with last words, right? And it’s this idea of stepping out into the unknown, of moving on into an unknown that could bring great adventure and great promise,” Schwartz said. “But I think it’s really about stepping out into the unknown and taking that risk of moving where you don’t have the answers, you don’t know what awaits you,...
And that means an overarching theme of last words, including main character Miles “Pudge” Halter’s (played by Charlie Plummer) favorite, those of poet Francois Rabelais: “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
“The Great Perhaps, finding the Great Perhaps. Miles is obsessed with last words, right? And it’s this idea of stepping out into the unknown, of moving on into an unknown that could bring great adventure and great promise,” Schwartz said. “But I think it’s really about stepping out into the unknown and taking that risk of moving where you don’t have the answers, you don’t know what awaits you,...
- 10/17/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Pete Dillon-Trenchard Jun 10, 2017
Spoilers! We dig into the references and extra details in Doctor Who series 10 episode 9, Empress Of Mars...
This article contains spoilers - pretty much all of them - for Empress Of Mars.
See related Doctor Who: Moffat on budget issues, advice for Chibnall Doctor Who: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is now the joint favourite
The Ice Warriors’ tombs have melted, and so have our hearts. As the Doctor gives Missy a good telling-off for helping to save the day, we turn our attention to the references, callbacks and generally interesting things about tonight’s episode. If we’ve missed something, you know where the comments section is…
Alpha CentaurSQUEE
Usually I take these things roughly in order, but let’s take a moment to let out what the cool kids call a big ‘squee’, or a Russell T Davies-style ‘Hooray!’ for the return, after 43 years,...
Spoilers! We dig into the references and extra details in Doctor Who series 10 episode 9, Empress Of Mars...
This article contains spoilers - pretty much all of them - for Empress Of Mars.
See related Doctor Who: Moffat on budget issues, advice for Chibnall Doctor Who: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is now the joint favourite
The Ice Warriors’ tombs have melted, and so have our hearts. As the Doctor gives Missy a good telling-off for helping to save the day, we turn our attention to the references, callbacks and generally interesting things about tonight’s episode. If we’ve missed something, you know where the comments section is…
Alpha CentaurSQUEE
Usually I take these things roughly in order, but let’s take a moment to let out what the cool kids call a big ‘squee’, or a Russell T Davies-style ‘Hooray!’ for the return, after 43 years,...
- 6/9/2017
- Den of Geek
Few names are on the tips of more Hollywood execs’ tongues right now than John Green, the bestselling author behind The Fault in Our Stars. After that tearjerking novel became a cross-platform hit, landing atop bestseller charts and birthing a film adaptation that exploded at the box office, attention turned swiftly to Green’s other books. Now, Temple Hill Entertainment has recruited Fault screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber to pen the adaptation of Looking for Alaska, with Fault producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen producing.
The teen romance centers on Miles, who attends boarding school for his junior year of high school, only to fall for a mysterious student named Alaska. The full synopsis for the novel is as follows:
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has...
The teen romance centers on Miles, who attends boarding school for his junior year of high school, only to fall for a mysterious student named Alaska. The full synopsis for the novel is as follows:
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has...
- 2/27/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
If you’ve managed to heave yourself back into your safety canoe after floating away adrift in a sea of your own wracking sobs for the past three weeks, no thanks to The Fault In Our Stars, maybe you’re finally emotionally stable enough to hear word about John Green’s next tearjerker — Looking For Alaska. The news comes from the author himself; Sarah Polley (Stories We Tell, Take This Waltz, Away From Her) has signed on to adapt Green’s other novel, taking on both writing and directing duties with the coming-of-age dramedy. You can stop holding your breath right now, because this one is devoid of any and all cancers; don’t get too relaxed, though, because it’s still going to be a nightmare of emotions and feelings and worries about your misspent youth. Were you ever really that carefree and beautiful? Or knew that many literary references offhandedly? Kids...
- 6/26/2014
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
After a nearly $50 million opening weekend grossing twice as many used tissues and broken hearts, the box office success of John Green's book-turned-movie The Fault in Our Stars has left millions with one question: So, what's next? Having read Green's most popular novel and hung on every word of the big screen experience, fans are looking for a new fix to curb their appetites. Despite being a recently popular addition to the world of young adult literature, Green's acclaimed repertoire of fictional bestsellers doesn't stop with the tragic conclusion of Hazel and Augustus' love story. Here is a list...
- 6/12/2014
- by Katherine Foreman
- PEOPLE.com
Fourteen months after its auspicious debut, we are now able to play "Dante's Inferno" in all of its glory. The wait has been unbearable. Who hasn't been chomping at the bit to get their hands on Visceral Games' grand reinterpretation of Dante Aligheri's seven-hundred-year-old poetry?
If "Dante" manages to capture an audience, we might be on the verge of a new gaming zeitgeist, wherein publishers across the land craft their blockbusters from the most traditional IPs in the public domain. Here are five games based on classic lit and the developers most suited to realizing them.
Don Quixote
Adapted by: Omega Force for Tecmo-Koei
An aged knight sits atop a wearied steed, his sad eyes betraying countless days of travel without rest. His armor creeks as he shifts his weight. The small, portly man riding a donkey beside him advises the knight to equip his weapon before entering battle. Rain...
If "Dante" manages to capture an audience, we might be on the verge of a new gaming zeitgeist, wherein publishers across the land craft their blockbusters from the most traditional IPs in the public domain. Here are five games based on classic lit and the developers most suited to realizing them.
Don Quixote
Adapted by: Omega Force for Tecmo-Koei
An aged knight sits atop a wearied steed, his sad eyes betraying countless days of travel without rest. His armor creeks as he shifts his weight. The small, portly man riding a donkey beside him advises the knight to equip his weapon before entering battle. Rain...
- 2/10/2010
- by John Constantine
- MTV Multiplayer
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